Equal Protection Project Tag

UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Opens Program to All Races After Equal Protection Project Challenge

Posted by James Nault on February 09, 2025 6 Comments

"Since you filed your complaint, OCR has confirmed that the Program is open to anyone regardless of race, color, or national origin"...

U. Arkansas-Walmart BIPOC-Only Program Paused After Equal Protection Project Challenge

Posted by James Nault on February 05, 2025 4 Comments

University spokesman: The program "is not currently active, and participants are not currently being solicited or chosen. If the program relaunches in the future, changes will occur to further clarify that participation is open to any interested students."...

Santa Clara U Opens Program to Applicants of All Races After Equal Protection Project Challenge

Posted by James Nault on February 01, 2025 6 Comments

University opens Blacks-Only Executive program to "individuals from all backgrounds regardless of race, color, and national origin"...

Trump Education Dept. Launches Investigation Into Anti-White Racism In Ithaca City Schools After Equal Protection Project Complaint

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 29, 2025 14 Comments

EPP: ICSD "needs to be held accountable for a four-year-long campaign of discrimination that involved and was known by the highest levels of the administration and Board of Education, despite complaints from the community objecting to the discrimination. It is not enough at this late...

STEM Program Excluding Asians And Whites at Four PA Universities Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2025 5 Comments

The Keystone Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation at East Stroudsburg University, Millersville University, Slippery Rock University, and West Chester University operate the program under a National Science Foundation grant....

Trump Executive Orders: The End of DEI as We’ve Known It, But Not The End of DEI

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2025 12 Comments

My take: EOs will impact "grotesquely discriminatory" programming, but the "core ideological and cultural battles on campuses ...

Cal State Alters Systemwide Program Excluding Whites and Women Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 23, 2025 5 Comments

"OCR confirmed that, since you filed your complaint, the University made changes to the Consortium and its programs/initiatives such that they are open to any student regardless of race, color, national origin, and sex."...

Trump’s Merit-Based DEI Executive Order Is A Sledgehammer

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2025 41 Comments

The EO takes aim at the private sector and higher education, requesting an OMB report within 120 days on the worst offenders and targets for federal action. Through our work at the Equal Protection Project, we have already identified numerous recalcitrant and systematically discriminatory institutions...

It’s Official – Dept. of Education Confirms MIT Ended Discrimination In Program After Challenge by Equal Protection Project

Posted by James Nault on January 17, 2025 2 Comments

Office for Civil Rights of DoEd closes case as "resolved" after MIT removed race- and sex-based discriminatory eligibility restrictions for "the Creative Regal Women of Knowledge" program....

Eleven Discriminatory Scholarships at Grand Valley State U Challenged by Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 13, 2025 5 Comments

"If there is a lack of representation, a lack of diversity, there are many lawful ways that the school can go about increasing diversity and increasing access. But what they can't do is achieve that goal through racial discrimination."...

As Iowa Regents DEI Vote Looms, Equal Protection Project Challenges Discriminatory U. Northern Iowa Scholarships

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2025 1 Comment

Widespread media coverage of EPP's complaint as Iowa Regents may vote as early as January 15 whether to eliminate DEI language from its Strategic Plan...

Thirty-Five Discriminatory U Rhode Island Scholarships Under Investigation by DoEd After Equal Protection Project Complaint

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 08, 2025 3 Comments

The Dept. of Education has opened formal investigations less than a month after our Complaint was filed. "I hope the incoming Trump administration will make the University of Rhode Island a test case for enforcement of the Civil Rights Laws."...

Legal Insurrection “Need Not Apply” Year-End 2024 Fundraiser

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2024 4 Comments

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Poison Ivies: DEI and the Downfall of the Ivy League

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 22, 2024 17 Comments

"The review of Ivy League practices by our CriticalRace.org project reflects substantial efforts by Ivy League schools to purport to comply with the Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action, while maintaining work-arounds and DEI practices that continue the obsession with racial identities."...

Pull funding “for one or two universities, and you will see hundreds of others fall into line”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 20, 2024 11 Comments

My appearance on The Federalist Radio Hour: "[The federal government] needs to say to these schools that you cannot engage in discrimination, you cannot violate the law and keep your federal funding, and we will pull it. Pull it for one or two universities, and...

Equal Protection Project Files SCOTUS Brief To Level Legal Playing Field For “Majority” Plaintiffs In Discrimination Cases

Posted by James Nault on December 18, 2024 7 Comments

EPP’s interest was piqued when we learned about a new U.S. Supreme Court case that highlights a strange, judge-made rule that makes it almost impossible for White, male, or other “majority” party plaintiffs in an employment case to prove discrimination in the courtroom and win....

Fifty-One Discriminatory Scholarships At University of Rhode Island Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2024 3 Comments

"We're going to seek to make URI a test case for the Trump administration"...

Equal Protection Project Notches 21st ‘Win’ As Western Kentucky U Eliminates Discriminatory Fellowship

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 10, 2024 1 Comment

WKU terminated discriminatory Athletics Minority Fellowship, which excluded whites from participation. We would have been just as happy if WKU kept the fellowshp but opened it up to everyone, but WKU chose otherwise....

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